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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-09
VOLUME III.

. Lady of Brock, the Holstein cow which
took the test premium at the late New
York dairy show, is four years old, yielded
2,064 pounds and fourteen ounces of
milk in one month, and 8, $50 pounds ten
ounces in five months and four days. In
seven days she tested twenty pounds three
and one half ounces of unsalted butter
She is the property Of Mr.. Jere Allis,
Isinours, MINI.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-09

-Lentston (He.) J1,Dnnt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
FOREIGk.

The banking capital of Canada is $41,-
258,735. The returns for January show
an increase of $5,OOO,OOO in deposits by
the people.
IT is rumored that an agreement has
been arrived at between Russia and Aus
tria for the settlement of the difference
relative to the Balkan states.
The Journal de st. Petersburg says it
is not confident that the mission of Ria
Bey to Sofia will be successful, though it
approves the Ports desire to contribute
to specific solution of the Bulgarian
crisis.
In Galway, Monday evening, during an
outbreak in which the troops were con-
fined to their barracks, a mob of one
thousand citizens beat and kicked few
soldiers found in the streets and then
stoned the barracks.
The Frankfort Zeitung says the pro
prietors of the principal German steel
works have joined the rail makers com
bina Gon, and foreign works are also Civ
ing their adhesion to an arrangement
which is likely to come into force very
shortly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

EMIL T. KEMPF, of south Boston, who
killed his brother-in-law, George F. EN-
Saturday plead guilty to murder in the
second degree and be sentenced to i'm
priSOnment for life.
WILLIAM TENsLER, aged 20, shot at
Robert A. Connolly, we'll known civil en-
gineer of Milwaukee, Monday afternoon
the bullet wounding Connolly's horse IN
the hip. Tensler is believed to be
insane.
FRFDERIoK p. HISS, son of the post
master at GAINESVILLE, Mich, has been ar
rested for robbing the mails. Losses ha We
been reported from that office for the
past six mobths.
WILLIAM G. HICKMAN, of Boston, has
fed to Canada, after swindling capital
i:ts out of $4,000 by scheme to manu-
facture an article called ''sugarine" out
of common starch. Hickman has rich
and Influential relatives at Philadelphia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
DEATH OF JAMES B. EADS.
The Distinguished Engineer and Con-
StructOr of the Mississippi Jet
ties Dies in the Bahama
Islands.

dispatch from Nassau, n. p, says:
Captain James B. Eads died here on the
otE instant, of pneumonia.
James b. Eads, LII. D., was born at
Lawrenceburg, Ind, May 20 1920, remov-
ing with his parents in 1929 to Louis
vine, NY, and from there after the death
OF ms rather to st. Louis in 1888, where
ne mas since remained. In 1889 he served
as clerk on river steamboat pIyinc on
the mississippi, and in 1912 was active in
forming company to recover sunken
property and rise wrekced steamers ON
the Mississippi and its tributaries. At
the outbreak of the civil war in 1851 he
submitted to the Government plar for
the defence Of the Western waters. He
designed and constructed in 1862 and
1868 the first iron clad steamer in the
United States navy. He afterward de-
signed and built six iron-cad gunboats
with rotating turrets. He was the pro-
jector and conjector and CONSTRUCTING
engineer of the Illinois and St Louis
bridge, and has deepened by means of let
ties the South Pass of the Mississippi from
eight TO thirty feet, and his main and sole
idea to complete his scheme of the shin
railway across the isthmus. In the month
of August, 1884, he, was awarded the Albert
medal by the Society Of Arts in England.
in recognition of the valuable aio which
his services have rendered to the commerce
OF the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
THE LATEST TELETRA NJ
WASHINGTON.

THE Postmaster General has put the
British American Claim agency of New
York, whose officers are now under arrest,
on the ''fraud" list.
THE treasury department is Informed
that many of the trade dollars present
ed for redemption at New York have
been split and filed so skillfully as to
almost defy detection.
COMMISSIONERS SPARKS has ordered the
restoration to entry of 1890 acres of
land in the Reed City (Mich.) land dis
trict, which were selected in 1871 by the
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad
Company.
The clerks of the senate and house
committees on appropriations find that
the sums actually set aside by congress
aggregate $247, 1887, IA. Under the Next
can pension law 7,716 claims have been
filed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has pardOned
Joseph H. Evans, an aged polygamist,
who has already served two years in the
Utah penltentiary, and Oscar [. Baldwin,
the embezzling bank cashier of Newark,
New Jersey, already at large on a writ of
habeas corpus.
AN understanding has been reached be-
tween committee representing the
American Cattle Breeders Association
and the Commissioner of Agriculture
which promises more efficient co-opera-
ton between the association and the De-
partment of Agriculture in the suppress
ion of pleuro- pneumonia.
The liver and harbor bill passed by
congress appropriates $4,000 for surveys
and estimates for waterway from Lake
Michigan to Joliet and thence to La Sale,
which, with the improvement of the Hi
nois river, would permit the passage of
large vessels from the lakes to the Missis-
sippi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
El}IES AND CASUALTIES.

By a fall Of earth in a mine at Lavant,
Ontario, three men were killed and two
others were seriously injured.
THE Gazette office at Davenport, Iowa,
was Quilted by fire Monday, entailing a
loss OF about $4,000.
The boiler in Cars Single mill, twelve
miles north of Alpena, Mich, exploded,
Tuesday morning. Emory Carr was
killed, and Waldo and Eugene Carr fatal
IL scalded.
A FIRE in the business portion OF Wal
Ia Walla, Wash. T., Wednesday. destroy
ed stores and ether property to the
amount of S125,000.
GIBBs' single mill near Edmore, Mich,
was shattered by the explosion of the
boiler Wednesday morning. Two per-
sons were killed, one fatally injured, and
six dangerously wounded.
FEDDERsEN's hotel and store at Andover,
Ia, were entirely destroyed by fire early
Tuesday morning. The loss is $4,000,
with $1,000 insurance.
ALTHOUGH the Ohio river at Cincinnati
stands above the danger line, the city is
threatened with g water famine from the
clogging of the pumping engines by mud
and sand. No hydraulic elevators are al
lowed to run.
By the falling of slate, Monday, in the
Phillips coal mine, at Ottumwa, Iowa, A.
G. Wiley was instantly skilled, and John
White. the mine boss, dangerously in
iured.
THE steamer Fleetwood burst her
steam pipe Friday morning near Law
renceburg, Ind. Three roustabouts were
fatally scalded, and the engineer, Frank
Good, was seriously injured.
FIRE in the Sherwood Manufacturing
Companys factory az Grand Rapids,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
FUNERAL NOTES.

JOHN WALTERS, one Of the Irish patriots
of '98, died Wednesday at Detroit, Mich,
aged 1OS years.
A CYLINDRICAL tunnel with a diameter
of six feet is being bored under the st.
Clair river at Port Huron, as test for a
Grand Trunk railway connection.
The strike of the brakemen on the
Pittsburgh Division of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad will probably prove
failure. The company is running all
its trains with new men.
THE Governor of Iowa has issued a
proclamation instituting strict quaran-
tine regulations against the importation
of cattle into that state from Illinois be-
cause of the alleged pleuro- pneumonia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
Mretched. Indeed.

are those whom a confirmed tendency to bilious
ness, subject to the various and changeful sv1np-
toms Indicative Of liver complaint. Nausea.
sick headache, constipation, furred tongue. an
unpleasant breath, duh or sharp pain in the
neishborhood OF the affected organ impuritv If
the blood and loss of appetite, sgnaize it as one
or the most distressing, as it is one OF the most
common, of malades. There is, however. a be-
nign specific for the disease and all its unpleas-
ant manifestations. 1t is the concurrent testi-
mony of the public and the medical profession
that HoStetter'S Stomach Bitters is a medicine
which achieves results speedily felt, thorough and
benign. Besides rectifying liver disorder it in
vigerates the feeble, conquers kidney and bladder
complaints, and hastens the convalescence of
those recovering from enfeebling diseases More
over, it is the grand specific for fever and ague
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

A GERMAN professor who has the ardu-
Gus but undoubtedly agreeable task of
instructing a class of young girls at a
private school was one day discussing
upon the beauties of the German word
"aufwiedersehen," saying. that the Eng
Sentiment and feeling. go yes, we have
professor, spoke out cheerfully one of
the pupils, with sparkle of mischief in
her eyes. each, what is the word ?n he
asked. ''See you later" was the informa-
ton. ''See you later" repeated the pro
fes8or, with the air of having received a
pathological truth. eyes; that is a good
phrase. It is idiomatic. It is very ex-
pressive. Several days later the pro
fessor was invited to dinner of dis
tinguished guests. AS he was parting
with his host, who was a man Of much
dignity and ceremony, he almost electri-
fed the company by cxclaiming in a
tone Of deep feeling: See you later! See
you later!' The lesson of his mischiev-
Gus pupil was evidently well learned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
A Curious Miser.

Funny thing occurred down at
our house, Christmas" said the brake
man. "I'm away almost every night in
the year, but Christmas night I got a
lay off and stayed home with my wife and
babies. Next door to US lives one of the
stlnglest old cOdgers that ever was.
Wheeler is his name, and everybody calls
him Stingy Wheeler. He is an old chap,
who has no children and no friends, and
is said to be worth a good deal of money.
I've had good deal of sickness in my
house this winter, and times have been
right hard with Us. It was mighty little
Christmas we had, [ can tell you.
"'Well, there's one thing we can say,
Henry said my wife to me, 'and that is
that our house is not hard to warm. It
beats all the way our coal lasts US here.
That half ton you got month ago isn't
nearly gone yet
"'That's the way coal lasts when there's
nobody to steal it, as we had where lived
last I replied. Now there's only one
man in this neighborhood I'd suspect of
stealing coal, and that's Stingy Wheeler.
I wouldn't trust that old codger very
far
"'Neither would T. said my wife.
''That night after we got In bed my wife
woke me, saying that she was sure there
was someone in the coal-house.
81 believe it's old Wheeler said.
$50 do T. my wife replied, but Re
careful, Henry, and don't get into trouble
with the old skinfint,' she added as I
hastily dressed myself.
SOFTLY L tiptoed out to- the coal house,
and, sure enough, there was man hard
at work with shovel. tt was Stingy
Wheeler, and he was throwing coal from
his bin into mine"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

ANOTHER curious case of apparent SEN
sation in member of the body after it
had been amputated comes from Florida.
George w. Clay's arm was amputated
put III box and buried. Soon afterward
he began to complain that the fingers of
the buried hand were cralnped and that
there was sand between them. His physi-
clan and his sister had the box dug up
and opened and found the fingers
cramped and the sand between, just as
George had said. They arranged the arm
properly and reburied it. Clay said that
while they were gone he felt an awful
pain in the amputated arm, and then
came sensation of great relief, and there
was no longer the old cranaped sensation
in the hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
TUE FUNERAL OF HENRY WARD BEECHER

Extract From the Sermon Preached by Rev
Charles Fl. Hall.
On Friday the whole city Of Brooklyn
was in mourning over the death of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. Public offices were
closed and business Of all kinds was en-
tireIy suspended while memorial services
were held in nearly all the churches. Peo-
pie began to throng Plymouth church as
early as o'clock. At halfpast 10 O'Clock
Rev. DR.. Charles II. Hall, robed in his
white sur plice and accom- panied by Rev.
S. B. Halliday, entered the church and
ascende6 the.platform.
After the first lesson, DR.. Hall com
menced his Grafton. During its delivery
there was not a dry eye in the house and
several times he was compelled TO stop
for a time to gain control Of his voice.
DR.. Hall pronounced the benediction and
the vast audience slowly fled out of the
church. It was notable gathering and
one long to be remembered by those
present.
DR. HALLS SERMON
The hand that rests SO still yOnder
laid aside the pen over q page Of the I'M
finished Life of Christ" Possibly the
last flash of thought as the conviction
drew upon him of the probable end of
life, was that it was to be left unfinished:
that he had not told all men that he
would have them know of that precious
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
RAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN

DRIVE whist has been the rage at
Derby, Conn, this winter, three of four
clubs playing constantly. CONSERVATION
has been caused among the devotees of
the game, however, by the fierce war
made upon it by minister, who has de-
nounced it as gambling, pure and simple.
the effect has been to stop the playing
except in one club. A few years ago Rev.
Mr.. Payson, then pastor of the Congre-
gational church, denounced from the
pulpit the lottery practice for the dis
position of the articles at fireman.
fair. The fair was a success, but Mr..
Payson is the pastor no longer. He now
lives in New York, and has suit against
the church for So 600 alleged back salary
ELEoTRICITy is put to a novel use In
Russia. One great, if not the greatest
disadvantage the Russian farmers ex.
perience is the shortness of the daylight
IN consequence of which they can not get
sufficient wheat thrashed. Owing to the
severe competition of America and India
IN respect to wheat, Russian farmers and
proprietors have lately sustained very
heavy losses, which threaten to increase
to an extent which will mean ruin to
them. Realizing this grave and very
real danger, the editor of a Russian agri-
cultural paper has introduced on his
farm the electric light, by which the
work has been carried on later than
was previously possible, and very salts
factory results have ensued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

The fact is well understood, of course
that Great Britain and other parts of
northwestern Europe owe mGch in the
matter of climate and temperature, to
the warming influence Of the Gulf
Stream The extent of the effect which
is thus produced, according to the calcu-
lati0ns made by DR.. Croll, almost exceed
belief, or even comprehension, in a
mathematical sense. He has found by
careful scientific estimate, that the
amount of heat conveyed northward in
the Atlantic by this stream is equivalent
to 77,479, $780, OO, 00OGO0,00O foot pounds
of energy per day, which is equal to all
the heat received by 1850, 1856 square
miles at the equator, and more heat than
is conveyed by all the air QUEENSLAND
so positive is its climatic effect, and so
far reaching, that, according to DR..
Croll, the heat of the Artic seas and
North Atlantic would be diminished TO
that immense extent by the stoppage or
diversion of the great ocean river.
CoNCERNING the danger of fire from
steam-pipes, says Building, the ganeral
results shown by Chapelle's experiments
Is that steam of ordinary temperature
passing through pipes is not the cause
of fire, as far as ignition Of wood in con-
tact with pipes is concerned. but that
when superheated to about 400 degrees
the steam becomes an active source of
danger. Such experimenting is moi in
frequently the result of improper set
ing of boilers. Mr.. Braidwod, superintend-
ent of tho Tendon fire engine establish
ment, stated before committee of the
House of Lords, that, by exposure to
heat not much exec ading that of boiling
water, timber is brought into such a
condition that something like spontane
Gus combustion takes place; and that it
may take eight years for the heat from
pipes charged with or used to convey
steam, hot water or heated air, laid
among the joists of a floor, or in the
heart of partition, or elsewhere in a
building, incased in timber, to indicate
the condition necessary to the actual ig
milton of the timber.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
SHE KNEW HIM
Chicago T. ibune

She sat besise me ar tSe play
Ia all Der girlish loveliuess.
While in the box across the way
4 dovager IL gorgeous Cress
Sat. while the diamon2S giittered bright,
On wrinkled neck and snou ders bare:
sAh, were III sc gems my own" L cried,
sd nnd for them place more fair.
Sweetheart" whispered, need tell
Where / would have those gems repoSe:'
She faltsrdd net tStle knew me welD,
Why. with your uncle. / suppose -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
An Experienced Cook.
Texas Siftings.

Lady-Have you had much experience
as a cook?
Applicant Oh, indeed I have. l was
the cook of Mr.. and Mrs. Peterby for
three years.
"Why did you leave them?'
Il didn't leave them. They left me.
They both died"
'What of?''
Dyspepsia"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

pot hunter IN Georgia came npon a
covey of twelve cartridges hudoled to-
gether on the ground. He fred into the
bunch and murdered eleven, and then kill
ed the twelfth with his second barrel as it
tried to fly away,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
surance

Mich. Friday, caused damage estimated
at $21, 800, which is fully coverd by in
surance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

Everybody's companion is nobody's
friend, but Red Star Cough Cure is every
body's friend. Prof. Grothe, of the
Brooklyn Board of Health, endorses it as
prompt, safe and sure. Price, twenty
i've cents bottle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

People should be careful how they ac-
cept the prescriptions found in the daily,
papers. 4 sure cure for diphtheria pub
lished by some of the papers, prescribed
a tablespoonful of turpentine for adults
and teas poonful for children, frequent
ly repeated-an excessive or poisonous
dose of q substance which must in any
case be administered with great canton
DR. Foote's BonItb lTo71fbI,J
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

Men, such as u. S. Senator Voorhees,, of
Indiana, are loud in their praise of st.
Jacobs Oil as an instantaneous cure for
rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica and other
bodily Mains
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

Parents and spectators, instead of the
children. are held responsible for crimes
bv tina Iattar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

1t is asserted that 1000 women own an
manage farms in Iowa.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-14
MORGAN HORSES FOR TENNES.
SEE

To those engaged in breeding the fast
trotter or PAGER, or the heavy draft or
coach horse, the recent introduction from
Vermont of number of Morgans by
some gentlemen of this county will look
like cloves labor lost" to say nothing
of the loss of the money they have put
in the venture; but it will be looked at
in an entirely different light by those
who have ever owned or used the Nor
gan horse for any length of time. We
doubt if there has ever been in this
country better all-around horse for his
inches since his day than Justin Morgan,
scendants have inherited his valuable
qualities in a degree remarkable for its
strength and uniformity.
This Introduction of the Morgans will
unquestionably prove of very great ben
eft to the general horse stock of the
country. While making no pretentions
to have sufficient speed in harness for
turf purposes, yet they are excellent road
horses, showing natural trottlnS ACTON
that will often carry them along at a
2 40 clip, and the road is never too long
for them. Under the saddle they are
equally as desirable; they are quick,
active, clear-footed, level-headed, cour-
ageous, but perfectly tractable, and while
they cannot be taught the saddle gaits as
readily as the Tennessee bred saddle
horse, after they do learn, no horse car
beat them to the end of a days journey
with less fatigue. Soundness is also &
family characteristic of the Morgans
Sound feet, legs, eyes and wind, and bar
ring their size, for they are small, there
is not another Objectionable feature
about this excellent family of horses
and as stated above, nothing but gooC
can result from uniting this blood witt
our saddle, road and general farm horses
Il Tennessee Farmer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-14
6orse Department.

with the first issue of the new year be-
gan the researches on the pedigree OF
the Charles Kent mare dam of Rysdyk's
Hambletcnian) and other noted horses OF
Orange county. This department will CON
tinue to give from original sources, informa-
ton of the highest interest on the pedigrees
of trotters and producers of trotters. The
first volume OF our work on Morgan Horses is
now approaching completion, but we shall
still continue to collect and publish intorma'
tion in that line, which may appear in sub
sequent volume. Our collection of evidence
on the sources of trotting speed we believe TO
be the best and most authentic now in exis-
tence, and no pains will be spared to make II
still more valuable by further researches
whose results will be first given to the public
in these columns,